Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

George Inman, aged 63, fell dead while chopping wood near Bedford. The promising trotting mare, Kate Bennet. valued at SIO,OOO, is dead, at Rnshville. The recent death at Fort Wayne of Alexander Godfroy was followed on the following day by the death of his son James. Citizens of Knightstown make serious charges of cruelty against Mr. Ibach, Superintendent of the Homo for Feeble-Minded Children, near that city. A saloon-keeper at Vincennes came near losing his life by poisoD, which some one placed in a glass of seltzer which he was about to drink at his own bar. There are now hied in tho Governor’s office ninety petitions for pardons and remissions of fines and forfeitures Many of them date bael: for several years. The Baker bridge, near Crothersville, on the Jeffersonville, Madison aud Indianapolis railroad, which has caused the death of eighteen persons, has been burned. Indiana has one of the very largest school funds of any State in the nation, aud her public school system is in perfect trim, with its 13,000 teachers and 400,000 school children. An 8-months-old child of Mrs. Isaac Casten, of Clovcrdale, Putnam county, crawled under tho stove during the mother’s absence, and, getting wedged there, was roasted to death. A FORMERLY REPUTABLE citizCU ()f New Albany, but now a con firmed drunkard, hag been arrested for stealing chairs from one of the temperance organizations of the city which he sold to purchase whisky. Geo. Woods, who has already been tried twice for the murder of Millie Hobb, July 15, 1877, committed suicide in his ceil in jail, at Evansville, the other night. He left a letter saying .lie would not stand a third trial. The Governor has remitted a tine in an adultery case -a marriage following a Utah divorce. It is said that there are several more cases of the same kind —marriages consummated after the procurement of Beaver county (Utah) divorces— over the State. An old man named John Fella, who had resided alone in a small cabin in Spencer township, Harrison county, since his wife died a year ago, was found dead in his house, the other day, with the eyes guawed out and arms and face badly eaten by rats. Tiie Richmond street-railroad stables burned the other night. All the rolling stock of the company was destroyed. The stables and part of the cars had been built but a few weeks. They wore owned by J. F. Miller. The 10.-s is partly covered by insurance. A month ago Joseph Clevenger, of Rnshville,was bitten between the index and middle finger of liis right hand by a rat. Two weeks ago his hand aud arm bccagnc so much swollen and the pain so severe that the most powerful anodyne failed to quiet him. He got some better, but took a relapse, and is now likely to die. Miss Flora Gates, daughter of Albert Gates, a farmer living about four miles southeast of Mtincie, was fatally burned, her clothing catching fire while she was engaged in smoking meat in a smoke-house, near her father’s residence. A sister was also badly burned in attempting to extinguish the llames. Fred Selzer, a former barkeeper, of Evansville, more recently of liockporf, fired through a window of A. J. Hickman’s saloon at the barkeeper, who had put him out. Tlio barkeeper, seeing the movement, dodged behind the counter and escaped. Hickman went to the door, when Sc zer shot him through the head, killing him instantly. C imp bell Loveless, living near New Lisbon, stricken with palsy about two months ago, lias complained bitterly ever since of his misfortune, saying ho didn't sec why God Almighty didn't cause both tides to be paralyzed and kill him, and be done with it. Twenty days ago he declared liis iutention of starving himself to death, aud since that time he has refused to take any food or nourishment whatever. William M. Ruston and Oscar TI. Knox, two highly esteemed Evansville young men, went out livin'ing in the low land across the river. They did not return in the evening, as cxp< cted, aud search was instituted, but without success. Next morning another party renewed the search, and found t lie dead bodies of both in closo proximity to each other. The supposition is that, night overtaking them, they became lost, and perished from cold aud exhaustion.